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- Lee’s Arlington House Open To Public After Six-Year Restoration
By Scott C. Boyd
ARLINGTON, Va. – Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, reopened April 20 after being closed six years for renovation.
- Stafford County, Va. Opens Civil War Park
By Scott C. Boyd
STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. – One hundred fifty years to the day after the Union Army’s 11th Corps marched out of camp to fight at Chancellorsville, the preservation of its camp site was marked at the April 27 grand opening of Stafford Civil War Park.
- Shenandoah University Given Cool Spring Land
BLUEMONT, Va. — Civil War Trust and Shenandoah University of Winchester, Va., recently celebrated their successful partnership to permanently protect 195 acres along the Shenandoah River that played a crucial role in the July 18, 1864, Battle of Cool Spring.
- Boritt’s Gettysburg Film Opens June 16
By Nancy Jennis Olds
GETTYSBURG, Pa. — The press was recently invited to showing of the movie trailer, ”The Gettysburg Story,” on the big screen at the Majestic Theater.
- NPS Awards $2.5 Million For Land At 4 Battlefields
WASHINGTON – The National Park Service (NPS) awarded $2,576,160.55 million in grants to help preserve 700 acres of land at Civil War battlefields in Marietta, Ga., Bentonville, N.C., Cool Springs, Va., and Summit Point, W.Va.
- Civil War Life Returns To Valley’s Grand Caverns June 15
By Nancy Jennis Olds
GROTTOES, Va. — The days of Civil War soldier visits and dances in the Grand Caverns will come alive again at the June 15 Grand Caverns Heritage Day: Soldier and Civilian Life in 1863.
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Civil War News is a current events monthly newspaper published by Kathryn Jorgensen. She and her late husband Peter were community newspaper publishers,
collectors and history buffs. The newspaper was founded in 1974 by
Michael A. Cavanaugh as The Civil War Book Exchange.
Civil War News publishes:
- More than 600 coming event listings a year
- Extensive coverage of preservation efforts and threats at sites
across the country
- In-depth reviews of more than 200 Civil War books a year
- A monthly guest Preservation News editorial page column
- Regular columns on firearms by Joe Bilby, images by Ron Coddington and Civil War Round Tables by Matthew Borowick,medical by Jim Schmidt. We're happy to announce a new column by The Watchdog
- Photo coverage of reenactments
- Special sections with new year's coming events and unit & group recruiting ads in January, information about groups doing preservation fundraising in April, Gettysburg in July and Civil War books in November.
- AND news, photos, features, letters, researcher's needs and display and classified ads
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